Stories by lisper

PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?

NASA discovers 'clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars'

Never-aired episode of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' (1969) [video]

Jetson One Personal Electric Aerial Vehicle

Centralia Mine Fire

Darvaza Gas Crater

Ehrenfest paradox: the circumference of a relativistic rotating disk is <2πr

The Block Stacking Problem

Worst. Puzzle. Ever. (2009)

The Elements by Tom Lehrer (Aristotle's Version)

U.S. passport drops to lowest ranking yet on global index

Hertz AI Scanner Charges $350 for Tiny 'Dings' on Rental Car

A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40k years old

Causation as Folk Science (2003) [pdf]

A Simple Correspondence Between Stochastic Processes and Quantum Systems [video]

16B Apple, Facebook, Google and Other Passwords Leaked

Gettier Problem

How AI Is Ruining the Electric Grid [video]

Humans Need Not Apply (2015) [video]

Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS

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